Experimenting with the Widget Shop demo application described in the whitepaper is very helpful.

There is one thing that worries me, though. From what I gather you're relying on the excellent support for web.config transforms provided by Microsoft? But what about other types of .NET applications, such as WinForms applications and Windows Services, which - as far as I know, but I'd love to be proven wrong - doesn't benefit from the same built-in support for .config transforms from Microsoft? Is it possible to integrate these types of applications in Deployment Manager as smoothly as ASP.NET applications?

That's right, we do use the Microsoft libraries to perform .config file transformations, but we ensure they're performed on all files with a name of the form "*.config", so if you wanted to deploy a non-ASP.NET application, it would be just as easy to configure.

If you do have any problems with configuring your application, let us know. If there's anything else you need to make your life easier, we have a forum for feature requests and suggestions here.